Doug Albregts of Little Falls Trophy, photo by Drew Reynolds
On May 16, 2025, New Jersey-based indie alt-rock band Little Falls Trophy released its new single, "My Little Sunshine (Rehashed Version)," via Rock Ridge Music.
"Everything is better when the sun is shining," said Doug Albregts."'My Little Sunshine' weaves a tale of two people wallowing in their bond of love. A nutty little love song about all the ways love can make us warm, happy and vibrant. Pure, sweet, and simple!"
"Little Falls Trophy lights a love-soaked heatwave on smoldering 'My Little Sunshine'... Intimate and utterly intoxicating, Little Falls Trophy’s rehashed 'My Little Sunshine' captures the heat of the moment with soulful tenderness, grace, and grit. It’s an ode to love’s rawest, real-life moments – the parts that don’t show up in Hollywood films, but that make a lifetime together worth every second." - Atwood Magazine
Every musician winds up being the sum of their influences, but the truly great ones find distinctive ways to filter and adapt what they’ve absorbed from their heroes and peers alike into an original soundtrack all their own. Such is the case for Doug Albregts, the one-man band known as Little Falls Trophy.
Like many musicians before him, Albregts looked to The Beatles for guidance, but he found his own path for building upon The Fab Four’s impeccable songwriting template. “They were a trigger point for me because I was not a seasoned songwriter at the time,” Albregts observes. “I was taking notes while watching their recording sessions, and what struck me was their natural instincts. They took relatively simple things and were able to make them so unique, yet they also remained so complex in their own way.”
Those insightful observations also described Little Falls Trophy’s second album, Dutch Motel, to a T. Dutch Motel was released on July 7, 2023 via Rock Ridge Music. Produced by Albregts, the album was recorded and edited at Hapgood Studios in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. It was mixed by noted engineer Josh Tyrrell (Mark Ronson, The Who, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Christine McVie, James Morrison, Mark Knopfler) at Supervox Studios in London, and mastered by Joe Lambert at JLM (Joe Lambert Mastering) in Cortlandt Manor, New York. All guitars and lead vocals were by Albregts, while all the drumming came courtesy of Aaron Shafer-Haiss in Nashville, with the exception being the drums on “Autumn Audio,” which were played and recorded by Dan Konopka of OK Go in Los Angeles. Dutch Motel checked in as the fertile brainchild of a singer/songwriter/guitarist whose artistic maturation is coming to full fruition at the exact right time.
Taking "Dutch Motel" a step further, Albregts created "Rehashed," his next album release (due out in June 2025). “Rehashed” was intended to serve as a bridge to Little Falls Trophy's third full-length album, but as the project matured, it became a collective of Little Falls Trophy redos with a splash of acoustic flare, while manufacturing some lush guitar tones, a B-side song included for good measure, and some hand-picked covers to placate the mood.
While the band name Little Falls Trophy is a direct homage to a well-loved, family-owned trophy shop located in Albregts’ home state of New Jersey, it’s also meant to encompass the evocative broad-stroke ruminations of a 21st century American songwriter wholly in touch with the life-pulse of the cultural here and now.
Albregts traveled quite a long developmental road to get to where Little Falls Trophy is today. After starting out as a bass player in his college band, he's only been playing guitar seriously for the past 10 or 15 years. Everyone he has played with since the late-1980s on into the early-2000s scene had a big influence on what he is doing now, and that’s where a lot of these songs are coming from. "I always thought I had great ideas, and I finally had a songwriting breakthrough during Covid when I began writing about all the angst around us and the world we had become" he explains. "Once that happened, all these new creative avenues opened up for me.”
